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  2. Code Noir - Wikipedia

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    Punishments were a matter of public or royal law, where the disciplinary power over slaves could be considered more severe than that for domestic servants yet less severe than that for soldiers. Masters could only chain and whip slaves "when they believe that their slaves deserved it" and cannot, at will, torture their slaves, or put them to death.

  3. Cruel and unusual punishment - Wikipedia

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    Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to the sanction. The precise definition varies by jurisdiction, but typically includes punishments that are arbitrary, unnecessary, or overly severe compared ...

  4. Bill of Rights 1689 - Wikipedia

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    Largely based on the ideas of political theorist John Locke, [3] the Bill sets out a constitutional requirement for the Crown to seek the consent of the people as represented in Parliament. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As well as setting limits on the powers of the monarch , it established the rights of Parliament, including regular parliaments, free elections ...

  5. Slave codes - Wikipedia

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    Punishment and killing of slaves: Slave codes regulated how slaves could be punished, usually going so far as to apply no penalty for accidentally killing a slave while punishing them. [9] Later laws began to apply restrictions on this, but slave-owners were still rarely punished for killing their slaves. [ 10 ]

  6. Crimes Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

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    Senator (and future Chief Justice) Oliver Ellsworth was the drafter of the Crimes Act. The Crimes Act of 1790 (or the Federal Criminal Code of 1790), [1] formally titled An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes Against the United States, defined some of the first federal crimes in the United States and expanded on the criminal procedure provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789. [2]

  7. Black Act 1723 - Wikipedia

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    Others, however, have claimed that the Blacks were closely connected with Jacobitism and that the Black Act was designed to combat that political threat. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Sir Geoffrey Elton claimed that the Act was "passed not in order to suppress legitimate protest but because organized gangs were destroying deer and planning a Jacobite rising".

  8. Intolerable Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act , a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.

  9. Amelioration Act 1798 - Wikipedia

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    It has been argued that the Act sought to preserve the well-being and encourage the breeding of existing slave populations to preserve the labour basis upon which the Caribbean's plantation economies were based. It does not appear that the provisions which prohibited cruel and unusual punishments were widely enforced.